@PhenomX6 @wood@pdx.social I stopped shopping there for good because their COVID policies were ridiculous even compared to other stores. I had some black lady yell at me for accidentally going the wrong way. Seriously, all she was doing was screaming at people in front of the entrance to force measures that don't even work. Even before then, I was treated like shit by the workers and I was fed up.
Luckily, regional chains are fairing much better here. We only have around two Wal-Marts in this entire region.
@PhenomX6 @wood@pdx.social This is worse than doing happy birthday songs at restaurants. And it reminds me of those dancing Tik-Tok nurses during the COVID lockdowns. But this still doesn't seem like something that every Wal-Mart is doing. And I'm pretty sure most managers wouldn't force their employees to do it if they don't want to. The only ones that seem to have won the contest didn't have all their employees. They won only because someone in the crew actually knew how to edit videos.
Luckily, the only thing that we had to do back when I was working minimum wage was play some stupid ice-breaker board game and compare ourselves to food items on the menu. And thankfully, this is usually something that only minimum-wagies of big chains have to do.
@ryo It was tough for me. I was lucky that my uni didn't have a vaccine mandate. I was even preparing to drop out if it happened. Luckily, I graduated without taking that. My parents also tried me to get the jab. My dad even made an appointment for me but I ditched it.
I still don't know about the future though. Soon, I'm going to be working full-time at an office job. I just hope that I can make enough money to become somewhat self-sufficient before things really go to shit. I really should be happy about entering a new chapter in my life but given what's coming, I'm not enthusiastic at all.
@ryo Waking up to COVID isn't enough. People also need to wake up to the climate scam, fake elections (which is all of them), government, the trans agenda, 9/11, and all the other conspiracies that have affected us for nearly the past two centuries. They also need to learn the solutions to these problems.
@PhenomX6 @wood@pdx.social Are you sure every Wal-Mart does this?
@matana
>I wonder whether that could happen because the journos made up a big stink of "being forced to play as a girl, eeeeew" because stink like that did happen at times
Phantasy Star II was originally going to star Lutz (or Noah in the English translation) from the first game after a 1000 stasis, but later they decided to have the character be a descendant of Alis (or Alisa in the Japanese version; I'm used to the US translation). You do play as a female in Phantasy Star Gaiden for the Game Gear though (spoiler alert: that's because it turns out the main character is a clone of Alis).
My guess is that the creators didn't want the series to be associated with the magical girl genre which wasn't the direction they intend to go. And they didn't want the series to just appeal to girls. That's just my guess though.
>but afaik, by the time Phantasy Star 3 got released, the series went FUBAR, as per S*GA's usual course
Phantasy Star III was a departure of the rest of the series. It was made by a separate team (the Phantasy Star team was working on Sonic the Hedgehog at the time) and they decided that they would have the game set in what appears to be a medieval fantasy world that seems to have no connection to the Algo system, until the end of the game when you realize what's truly going on. It was also painfully rushed. It was an ambitious game, but it being rushed, being set in a different setting, and having a different artstyle made it a flop.
Phantasy Star IV brought things back together, but it concluded the original series. They never intended to continue it. Phantasy Star Online was created by a completely different team, and from what I've heard, it wasn't originally a Phantasy Star game, but the science fantasy setting made some of the developers think of Phantasy Star.
@matana All the sequels of the original series had male protagonists though.
I was feeling pretty frustrated with modern journalism pretending that there were no playable and "respected" women in vidya until they were forced in for woke marketing
so I planned a series of illustrations celebrating girls, but... there's just too many of them... (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡
which is good, and I hope to draw some
but for now, here is Alisa Landale, the main character of Phantasy Star, released in 1987
@PhenomX6 One advantage of living in the third world is that you aren't exposed to globalist propaganda.
@ryo I don't see that many here. Granted, most people didn't get any boosters where I'm from.
@ItsSkyDragonz I heard it takes years to do that. Plus, it doesn't fully restore the foreskin because you can't grow the nerve endings back.
@Terry
>fosstodon user
>favorite language is the one that the FOSS community despises
@hachi @Hyolobrika This is literally Star Trek levels of Utopian Marxism.
@Hyolobrika @hachi
>Why do you care about, say, the levels of water fluoridation in a small town in the US?
That was just an example of simple sabotage. People can learn from other communities, but I don't believe things like foreign aid or constant virtue signaling.